Assessments

Overview

With Assessments, you can gather data at the Agile Capability level for each team, system, and organization. The Assessment view allows authorized users of P2ANav to create new and manage existing assessments.

Key User Interface Elements

Assessments View

No Assessments in Progress

1. If there are no assessments in progress, you'll see the Start New Assessment button. 
2. Click "Start New Assessment" to create an assessment for all levels of the company - organization, system, and team
3. Fill out the new assessment creation form:
   
   • Name: A short descriptive name
   • Date: Click to access a data selector
   • Populate: If there are prior assessments published for the company, you can select one to populate the new assessment with prior data. All data will be included: Organization, system and team levels
4. Then click "Start Assessment."  The assessment will be put into progress and will include all levels of the company - organization, system, and team.

Assessment in Progress

Only one assessment can be in progress at a time. 

A single assessment includes all levels of the company: Organization, System(s), and Team(s)

Users with appropriate permissions can manage details of an assessment in progress:

• Name and Date: Click the pencil icon , then edit the field. Changes take effect when you click out of the field
• Tag: Optional. Used to filter published assessment filter. Existing tags will display in the drop-down: 
• Delete Assessment: All data for all levels in the company for this assessment will be deleted. This cannot be undone.
• Publish Assessment: This assessment will be published for all levels: organization, System(s), and Team(s). The results will be published to the Map and Capabilities views, and will be used to update P2A index calculations on the Prioritization view.

Managing and Launching Assessments

The in-progress assessment view will display a hierarchy of all Path to Agility levels.

Use the "toggle" to expand or collapse level children view

Each level has Interface elements that impact only that level. These elements are described below.

Launch an Assessment

If an assessment has not been started, clicking the assess button next to a level opens the Agile Capability Assessment Setup Option for that layer

• Included Stages: Chose from Path to Agility stages
• Assessment Options
  • Live Poll - See Facilitating a Live Poll
  • Offline Survey - See Facilitating an Offline Survey Assessment
• Assign host: Available for Live Polls only. Optional. Enter the email address of another P2ANav user who will host the assessment
• Start: Starts the assessment for that level. For details see Facilitating Agile Capability Assessments for Teams, Systems and Organizations 

Assessment Scoring Status 

Each row in the assessment view will display the number of Agile Capabilities that have been scored compared to the total number of Agile Capabilities for that level.

Assessment Completion

During an assessment facilitation session,  the host can mark that level's assessment as complete. 

Assessment completion status can also be changed from the assessment view screen (provided at least one capability has been scored) using the Complete toggle for that level:

View Data

Clicking on "View Data" will open the corresponding Capability Heatmap

Publishing Assessment

When your organization has finished assessing all of the capabilities you want to assess at each level, click "Publish Assessment" to mark the organization’s assessment complete.

Published assessments will then be selectable via the assessment filter drop for use on:

• Capabilities Heatmap
• Capability Prioritization
• Path to Agility Map